The Decline of Europe: Image and Reality

Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936) is a famous German philosopher, historian of culture, social thinker, and publicist. In his main work "The Decline of Europe," the author, within the framework of his concept of a certain life cycle of any culture, speaks of the inevitable, in his opinion, dehumanization of European culture, of the growing dominance of technicism, "which is transforming it into civilization" by replacing creativity and development with sterility and ossification...